Friday: cleaning, rolling, smiles

Today was the cleaning day.  It went about like I expected...rather annoying.  But I'm done now, so that's wonderful.  The house isn't in excellent order, but it is sufficient.  The toilets are cleaned, it is mostly picked up, all the presents are wrapped and I pretended to work on the floors.  Also, I got a delivery while I was going outside to bring in the trash can.  The guy said that he was with FedEx and I said ok.  It made sense.  But then as he was coming up to give me the package I realized he was in a Budget rental truck.  "Oh boy," I thought.  But it was too late to hide behind the door.  Luckily, it was a FedEx delivery.  I was surprised that they were so behind on deliveries that they needed to rent trucks, but I guess whatever works!

Joshua started doing a wonderful job rolling over yesterday; a real roll from starting with his hands by his sides.  So I thought that I'd get a video of him doing it.  The first video starts with him halfway rolled over.  The second one goes for a minute without him rolling over.  So...no video today.  Also, after his evening nap he woke up and gave the longest smiles that I've seen.  They just stayed on his face.  It was wonderful.

Thursday: cooking day

Today was our cooking day.  We made banana bread, pretzel/kiss sandwiches, apple puree, and chicken taco.  For doing that and watching two children, I feel rather accomplished today.  Although it is nice that Isaac likes to help.  He did get a very little burn when he accidentally touched a hot pan though.  I warned him it was hot, but didn't move it back far enough (because there wasn't enough room).  We put his hand in water and put neosporin and a band-aid on it...it was the perfect way to learn about hot items.  A small hurt, but now he knows why we always warn him about hot things.

We also went to the store so we could make the above items.  On the way there we had the following conversation.

Amanda: "What do you think we'll get at Meijer?"

Isaac: "Um...Hmm...new knife-es?"

A: "What?  No.  Try again."

I: "Cheese?"

A: "Yes, we're getting some cheese."

It should be noted that I thought he was going to say donuts or chocolate milk.  I've never talked about getting new knives.

Tomorrow is cleaning day.  And, if needed, bran muffin day.  Isaac likes to bake more than clean. :)

Wednesday: Isaac

We learned that Isaac can now open the refridgerator door!  We learned this when he couldn't wait to eat lunch yesterday and I was feeding Joshua.  So I told him to make it himself.  He still isn't great at spreading the peanut butter or jelly, but he got everything out.

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Every once in a while Isaac will give you a big hug and say "I love you so much."  It melts my heart.

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Isaac happily shared his ice cream with me today.  I had only asked for one bite; it was his idea to share the rest.  I wasn't about to say no. :D

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Isaac's been rather bad at being quiet during rest time, so I've decided that if Isaac is awake I really should be awake too...there's no point in trying to take a nap.  But wow, was I dragging around 5pm today.  The goal is to spend the hour doing things I would otherwise do at night (so not necessarily to work) and go to bed earlier.  I'm not really sure how well it's going to work out, but I need to try.

Tuesday: 20 weeks

I took Joshua's 20 week pictures yesterday.

Even though it is winter he goes barefoot in the house a lot.  They just don't stay on!

His hair is just starting to grow back.  And I finally caught a partial smile.

Today we got the rest of his vaccines.  He was extra tired and really cranky around 5:45 (just as Ben walked in the door, of course.)  I decided to give him some Tylenol and I think it helped.  He was smiling again a half hour later.

Monday: candy canes

I now understand why my dad hated candy canes when we were growing up.  Children just get sticky.  And kids crunch instead of savor.  And the cheap ones really don't taste very good.  And they get sharp.

Isaac managed to get a little one and I gave him a little piece of it.  I took a little bit too.  His piece hurt him.  The rest of the candy cane is hiding, even though he wants more.

Sunday: dragon hunting

Isaac went giant dragon hunting this evening.

In order to dragon hunt, you put your "gobbles" (i.e., goggles) in front of your eyes and go around looking for giant dragons.  When you find them, you step on them.  (Yes...you step on them.  It doesn't seem like they're all that giant if you can just step on them, but I guess it's a matter of scale.)

The biggest problem with his gobbles was that he couldn't see anything with them on, so he kept running into stuff.  Ben had a pair of goggles too, but instead of dragon hunting the two of us just laughed a lot.

Saturday: presents

We started wrapping presents.  Isaac happily loved to help and ripped the tape.

He later told Ben that it was Ben's birthday but that it was a surprise.  But then, it's still currently a surprise to Isaac so he wouldn't have been able to tell Ben even if he wanted to.